> pkill is a better killall? it reminds me to the differences between top and
> htop (recently someone posted about it).
But how is it better?
Really don't know, my rule is "the one which fits to your needs". I always use killall and feel comfortable with. Sometimes I use kill,
e.g. when killing a process is not enough and some files are showed to be open by lsof after a killall or a kill -9.
lsof man page illustrates a -t option which lets you pipe "terse" output to kill, which makes me suppose 'kill -9 pid' does not kill hanging files belonging to processes.
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